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Cancer Voices South Australia @cancervoices-sa.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Join Cancer Voices South Australia at our monthly Walk and Talk with Researchers! 📆 Fri 21 Nov 🚶 8:30am Walk (meet outside MOD/ Bradley Building on Nrth Trce) ☕ 9:15am Coffee (ground floor Bradley)

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meeting Join us next week, & check out the full program on our flyer!✨ DM me to join the mailing list 📌I'll be presenting this month on #Ovid Heroides 7 🗓15 Sept, 5PM AEST 📖 The Dido Project: Creative Research Practice as Critical Resistance

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Call for research participants: Do you identify as having a cancer-related impairment or disability? We want to hear from you! One $50 visa gift card is available to win. To register your interest and/or find out more, please use this link: qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/.../SV_6FPWt... #Cancer

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meetings Join us TOMORROW Friday 15th, and check out the full program on our flyer!✨ DM me to join the mailing list 📌Don't miss our August meeting with Prof. Peter Davis (University of Adelaide) 🗓15 August, 2PM AEST 📖 A New Commentaty on #Ovid Heroides

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

This #Ovid meeting is coming up this Friday 18th July! Want to join our AOS mailing list and get the Zoom links? Send me a message! #Classics #Ancient #AncientWorldStudies

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meeting We’ve got lots of exciting works in progress, check out the full program on our flyer!✨ 📌Don't miss our June meeting with Emily Morgan (University of Melbourne) 🗓25 June, 2PM AEST 📖#Ovid witches and magic!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I'm in a group of youth cancer patients who is running a Biggest Morning Tea Sun 29th June 10am-12pm at Goodwood Community Centre, Adelaide - if cancer has touched your life, join us for a day of community, fundraising, delicious cakes and storytelling! Rsvp: events.humanitix.com/youth-cancer...

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Youth Cancer SA's Biggest Morning Tea

Join us for our Biggest Morning Tea, hosted by youth cancer patients based in South Australia! Games, hearing stories, and yummy baked goods.

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

📜Australasian #Ovidian Society upcoming meetings #AOS We’ve got lots of exciting works in progress, check out the full program on our flyer!✨ 📌Don't miss our July meeting with Dr Rebecca Menmuir (University of Oxford) 🗓18 July, 4PM AEST 📖 #Ovid & his exile in the Middle Ages #Classics #Ancient

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Join the AWAWS Reading Group this Fri 23rd May 2.30pm AEST - we're reading the intro to Umachandran & Ward 2023 'Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case For Forgetting Classics' Join the reading group: awaws.org/reading-group #Classics #AncientWorldStudies #ClassicalStudies @awaws.org

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David Rafferty @davidrafferty.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

We have a blog post up on our new Open Access book "How Republics Die: creeping authoritarianism in ancient Rome and beyond". Find the post here: doi.org/10.58079/13xuq and the book itself (with all the chapters in downloadable PDF) here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Screenshot from the blog post: "Our work is a response to the wave of political science scholarship which appeared after Donald Trump's first election to the US Presidency in 2016, which dealt with the broad concept of "democratic decay" I As historians of Rome, we read that scholarship and saw a lot in it that looked like the Late Roman Republic and the early Augustan monarchy (conventionally dated to 133 BCE - 14 CE): terms like constitutional rot, autocratic legalism, and democratic breakdown are
all easily applicable to Rome. Of course, it's not new to compare modern democracies to Rome, especially the United States of America. One problem is that these comparisons are often pretty superficial, and we didn't want to do that: nothing in this book is as 'clickbaity' as "This Is Why Bernie Sanders Is Like The Gracchi", Or "How Donald Trump is Like Sulla, Julius Caesar, and Augustus". There is an understandable scholarly scepticism about comparing the Roman political system to modern systems: are they not just too different? But, as we editors argue in the first chapter ("New Perspectives on Old Problems/Old Perspectives on New Problems"), comparisons can be made responsibly-if due care is taken. If we are interested in the struggle for power among institutions (and this is what contemporary democratic decay scholarship is largely about), then Rome was a suitably complex
institutional environment. More complex than many modern..."

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Protik Islam-Jakobsson @protik.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

To think that there are parents—parents!!—who make excuses for or outright support the starvation of children it boggles the mind and breaks my heart

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Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies @awaws.org · 29/04/2025

Don't miss the second session in our Equity and Diversity Workshop Series: Can Classicists Be Queer? With Irene Salvo. Over Zoom May 15 @5PM AEST! More info and register here: tinyurl.com/37hth7s2

promo picture for AWAWS zoom equity and inclusion workshop "Can Classicists Be Queer? with Irene Salvo" happening Thursday May 15, 5pm AEST

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I will be there on Friday - join us so I can tell you all about plans for a Biggest Morning Tea run by local youth cancer patients!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

AMPHORAE XIX CFP DEADLINE APPROACHING The Australasian postgrad conference will run hybrid in Adelaide Aug 25-29, 2025 - amphorae-conference.weebly.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by **31st May** #Classics #AncientWorldStudies

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

AMPHORAE XIX is coming! The 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) will run hybrid in Adelaide Aug 25-29, 2025 - amphorae-conference.weebly.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by 31st May #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientWorldStudies

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The zoom link for our meeting of the Australasian Ovidian Society has been sent out! Want to get on the list? Send me a message! #Ovid #classics #ancientworldstudies

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Please join the Australasian Ovidian Society (AOS) for our first online meeting on Monday 7th April 2025! Meeting via Zoom at 2pm AEST/ 4pm NZT. We look forward to meeting each other & briefly sharing our ongoing research projects & other WIP DM me to get on the mailing list

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

AMPHORAE XIX is coming! The 19th Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Hellenic or Roman Antiquity and Egyptology (AMPHORAE) will run hybrid in Adelaide Aug 25-29, 2025 - www.amphorae-conference.com Send in your abstracts to our #CFP by 31st May #Classics #ClassicalStudies #AncientWorldStudies

A stylised ancient greek amphorae jar which says 'Adelaide Amphorae XIX' and has iconic Adelaide city imagery decorating its sides, including the red desert pea, the rocking horse, frog cakes and grapes for the wineries.

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 13/02/2025

Registration for #ResDiff6 is now available: resdifficiles.com/res-diff-6-2...

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

It gets busy at Writers Week, come watch the streaming of Bettany Hughes' chat on her new book with us instead! AWAWS Adelaide has a free afternoon tea Sat 8th March 2pm in Napier 210 at Adelaide Uni for International Womens Day! Register here & send to friends: events.humanitix.com/internationa...

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International Women's Day with AWAWS Adelaide

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

AWAWS Adelaide has an afternoon tea this Sat 8th March for International Women's Day! ⏰ 2pm 📍 Napier 210, University of Adelaide ➡ Streaming Bettany Hughes interview from Writers Week about her new book titled 'The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World' Register: events.humanitix.com/internationa...

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International Women's Day with AWAWS Adelaide

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Come see my poster at #COSASurvivorship next week! A lot of the time when we call something #codesign we are not meeting best practice, and it is up to everyone involved to ensure we work for better! Working with #CancerConsumers isn't just important, it produces better quality work!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A reminder if you are in Adelaide join #AWAWS for drinks on Monday 17th Feb 5pm onwards! Non-members and those who are AWAWS-curious are welcome

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

The Adelaide chapter of #AWAWS (Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies) is hosting a post-ASCS drinks event in Feb, find us on Monday 17th Feb from 5pm onwards at the Elephant British Pub! Keen to hear what events our members would like us to organise for 2025

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Survived the end of #ASCS46 ... a busy 4 days I'm just mentally reemerging from! Lots of good discussion around and between confetence sessions about ways to keep #Classics postgraduate community going

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gemma neall @gemmaneall.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I gave my paper on Ovid’s exile works at #ASCS46 yesterday. This is a dumb piece of artwork I made for it that I am highkey v proud of

A”tour” poster advertising Ovid’s exile to Tomis as the “Carmen et Errors Tour” digital artwork by Gemma Neall

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Come find our #OvidCorner at tonights post-keynote reception for #ASCS46 to hear about launching an #AustralasianOvidianSociety !

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gemma neall @gemmaneall.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Incredible talk from Georgia Pike-Rowney on the ARTefacts project at the ANU classics museum! LOVE the creative responses and engagement with ancient content! #ASCS46

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Hoping everyone is recovered from the dinner last night enough to make it to the second #Ovid panel of #ASCS46 in the first session this morning!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Another day another conference and I am once again talking about Dido's self written epitaph in #Ovid Heroides 7 #ASCS46

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Survived day 1 of #ASCS46 thanks only to the heroic efforts of Chloe and @gemmaneall.bsky.social pushing me in my wheelchair - we can only hope we escaped sunburn ... this time

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

On Monday 3rd Feb at #ASCS46 I'll be presenting my paper 'Reading Dido Diffractively: Moving beyond reflection as metaphor' in the first of TWO #Ovid panels I'm pleased to have helped organise. Bringing quantum physics & some new materialism into #Classical literature-power in metaphors matters!

$The first presentation slide of a paper titled 'Reading Dido Diffractively: Moving beyond reflection as metaphor', with a university crest in the bottom left, and above the text a decorative image of the Reynolds painting of Dido's death$

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

There are TWO #Ovid panels at this year's #ASCS46 don't miss us on Monday after lunch and on Tuesday first thing! ☆Ovidian Legacies: Receptions, Revisions and Reflections - Mon 3rd Feb 1.30pm-3pm & ☆Performing the Feminine: Gender Trouble in Ovid's Poetry - Tues 4th Feb 9am-10.30am

A screenshot of a conference programme which reads 'Ovidian Legacies: Receptions, Revisions and Reflections'

A screenshot of a conference programme which reads 'Performing the Feminine: Gender Trouble in Ovid's Poetry'

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Simona, Gemma & I are piggy-backing off #ASCS25 next week to hold a first 'meeting' of the #AustralasianOvidianSociety Join us Tues 4th Feb in our "Ovid Corner" at the reception following Prof. Feeney's keynote. This is a chance to chat and meet others Ovidian scholars We hope to see you there!

A picture of a statue of Ovid, with a thought bubble edited on to say 'ASCS 2025 here I come'

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The #AIASCS session on queering time was an absolute highlight for me - It's a mark of a great panel when the panelists are so excited by each others work that the questions for each other flow fast and could go on! #classics #QueerTheory

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

AWAWS Adelaide Chapter is holding a Zoom session for postgrads wanting to practice a paper for any conference (ahead of #ASCS25 in Feb) on Mon 13th Jan 1pm ACST on Zoom! Register to present or to join us in our audience: events.humanitix.com/postgrad-pap... #AncientWomen #Classics #AncientWorld

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Postgrad Paper Practice

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

I'm grateful to have presented in the SCS Ovid panel on the Heroides, speaking about my favourite swan song 🦢 Alicia and Daniel ran a wonderfully accessible hybrid panel, which set a high standard for the rest of the conference! I'm feeling lucky to be amongst excellent papers ✍

A powerpoint title slide, with a deocrative image of the painting by Asselijin 'The Threatened Swan' (1650). The text on the slide reads: Dido's Swan Song: Poetic legacy in Ovid's Heroides 7. Shona Edwards MPhil Adelaide University Kaurna Country

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Cancer Voices South Australia @cancervoices-sa.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We are proud to have talented and creative team members who are engaged with consumer representative work across the cancer sector. Our CVSA Exec member Thomas Binns directed and edited this music video for Canteen Australia starring YAPS the puppet! youtu.be/jX5On6u_0OA?...

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The AYAs - Breakthrough | Music video starring YAPS the puppet | Youth Cancer advocacy

YouTube video by Canteen Australia

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

There's a special kind of joy I feel at an event where the organisers have made considerable efforts to make it accessible& inclusive. The #AWAWS Equity& Diversity lecture with the founder of Crip Antiquity Clara Bosak-Schroeder began with such a sincere offer to provide what attendees might need

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

@gemmaneall.bsky.social @emchambs.bsky.social and I have great plans for the Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies (AWAWS) Adelaide chapter for 2025, can't wait to dig in with pre-conference practice sessions, coffee, drinks, movie and more!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

It was wonderful to launch the Adelaide Chapter of Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies #AWAWS last night w. @emchambs.bsky.social & @gemmaneall.bsky.social We had people from 5 unis at from a range of disciplines and career stages. Can't wait to see how this community grows!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

Calling on Ovid and/or elegy people in Aus & NZ! @gemmaneall.bsky.social and I have been plotting an interest group so that we can get a cohort to keep up to date with International Ovidian Society events which are so northern hemisphere dominant. If you are interested in joining please let me know!

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Waiting for my flight back to Adelaide and so far there is only one man waiting at this gate... I think if the girls put their heads together we could cure cancer on this flight... global politics may change after this flight... so much potential

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Shona Edwards (she/her) @shona22.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

Presented at @ASCS1966 earlier this week on some #Ovid work which means a lot to me as a cancer patient. 🦢 When the fates call, the white swan, abandoned, sings in the wet grass 🦢

A screenshot of a powerpoint slide. At the top half, the 1650 painting by Asselijin of the threatened swan shows its beak open and wings spread wide. Below, the text reads 'Dido's swan song: Poetic legacy in Ovid's Heroides 7. Shona Edwards, MPhil Adelaide University, Kaurna Country, followed by her email address

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